Ricky: “Don’t Get Above Your Raisin’” was a no-brainer as well, with it being my first hit with Epic Records and I wanted to hear Mr. Buck (White) come in and play piano on that and he did. It was also fun to play electric guitar on record once again. So it’s not totally bluegrass style but I’ve always been known for kinda mixing bluegrass and country together so I wanted to do some that was totally acoustic and I had Joe Glaser string together a string-bender on an old McPherson acoustic guitar that plays like butter with great action. He looked at me like I was from another planet when I asked him, but he did it and I was elated with the guitar when it was finished.

Matt, you may have given a way for rock musicians to tour with acoustic instruments…

Ricky: I took it to the Opry to play it and everyone there just wanted to play it and hear it. They were real curious about it.

Matt: I bet Keith Urban would love one of those…

Ricky: Yeah, Joe said he’s not gonna make another one of these acoustic string benders because it’s too much work and he got a bad sinus infection from the light wood he used to make the rollers for the string bender in the guitar.